The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.