I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.