Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under a mysterious and unknown impulse, sometimes act with a speed which they themselves would have thought beyond them.

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.