One of the few luxuries left is travel, and the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

Soho is a gritty former mercantile area that has, of course, evolved into the most bourgeois neighborhood in New York.

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

I think it's fair to say more adultery goes on in hotels than any other place in the world.

Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

You come up with a story line, you hire the writer, the director, the stars, the set designer.

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.

He's the beating pulse of every cause dear to me.

One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

I've always come back from adversity, and I've always had the mentality of proving people wrong.

Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.

To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error which hints on active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simpily an all-pervasive system.

The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be.

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

In any man who dies there dies with him his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.