I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

Whipping is fifty percent show and noise.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.

Artists are meant to be madmen, to disturb and shock us.