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.

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

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

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

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

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

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