It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.

We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.