I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

Romantic art is always stylized: the better the art, the cleaner and more attractive and intelligent the stylization.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

i cannot be called upon to know a negative or to prove a negative. if there is a god and you prove it, that's fine. but you don't tell me you can't know that there isn't. i would say yes i know there isn't because i have been given no evidence.

Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.

To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accessory to the torture and murder of his victims.