Naturally, love's the most distant possibility.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.

A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Not every woman is a prostitute, but prostitution is the natural apotheosis of the feminine attitude.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling consumption until the moment it gives out.

My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

Eyes darker than a midnight lake penetrate my thoughts with their intensity, and a big hand warmly covers mine

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

Bets lengthen putts and shorten drives.

The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.

I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.

Anyone who knows anything about me knows that I am a very patriotic guy, in terms of my Scottishness and my roots.

A form of art that I like is portraiture. I've been thinking about portraiture, and its relationship to writing and literature, biography and autobiography, and so that will be my next thing.

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.