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

First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

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.

I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.