In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Respectable people... What bastards!

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

Let us eat, drink and satisfy our coarse appetites, but let us keep our souls sacred and apart.

What will be the death of me are buillabaisses, food spiced with pimiento, shellfish, and a load of exquisite rubbish which I eat in disproportionate quantities.

I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

She might have liked to try to strangle him with those slender fingers of hers, but she wanted to make a job of it and this great patience with which she waited for her claws to grow was in itself a form of enjoyment.