You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I can't sleep with you tonight, baby, my head's all messed up, you've no idea. It's somewhere else and it's full of voices and songs and bad things.

These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

Please remove your watch,' he said. 'In my domain time isn't a factor.