The emotional element which gives an obsessive value to communal existence is death.

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.

We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.

We spent 10 years writing our first fiction story and truly hope people like it.

So many people feel that once you reach a certain age then it's time for you to retire from a sport you love. I don't think that's true at all. I think age should not dictate that.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

Emotional peace and calm come after doing God's will and not before.

Meat consumption shouldn't be normal.

Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.