The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility.

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.

Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read

Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them they don't have a history that they have no roots.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

If only women are talking about women's rights, then the issue has failed from the start. If you think about the Holocaust, that wasn't just a Jewish issue. Civil rights weren't just a black issue.

When you have your passion, you never even think about other things. It's tunnel vision. You go until you get it.

When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might've caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.