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

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is.

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we want to destroy.

It's the hour when night breaks away from the day, my dove, let me go.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

on him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.