Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of familiar misquotation.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.

albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.