I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable.

She was happy, and perfectly in line with the tradition of those women they used to call "ruined," "fallen," feckless, bitches in heat, ravished dolls, sweet sluts, instant princesses, hot numbers, great lays, succulent morsels, everybody's darlings . . .