I was beaten up wherever I went, and people shouted at me and cursed me and threw things at me.

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it's the resentment that settles on your face

I go wherever my fare is paid.

Everybody who's been on television more than once wears in public an expression of fatuous affability. Because you may be addressed at any moment by somebody.