Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.

Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

When Satan's not in the mood, virtue triumphs. Hasn't even Satan a right not to be in the mood once in a while?

Art is hard for a puritan to understand.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

Often I had to imagine the things I needed. I learned very early to read amidst noise. And so I started writing and drawing at an early age.