I wanted to swallow myself by opening my mouth very wide and turning it over my head so that it would take in my whole body, and then the Universe, until all that would remain of me would be a ball of eaten thing which little by little would be annihilated: that is how I see the end of the world.
Jean GenetPrisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.
Jean GenetI'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.
Jean GenetSlowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.
Jean Genet