My true church is a whorehouse – the only one that gives me true satisfaction.
Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
Literature ... is the rediscovery of childhood.
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest.