Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

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.

There was existence in oblivion

Men are not allowed to think freely about chemistry and biology: why should they be allowed to think freely about political philosophy?

A brilliant treatment of the history of Purgatory in England and its survivals and echoes throughout Shakespeare's plays, above all Hamlet.

It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.

How could sexuality be anything but God? It's the creation of life. Life is experiencing itself in endless forms.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

I don't care what you label me as long as you call me president.

God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.

The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.