An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?

To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book.

The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

My only criticism about Quentin Crisp is that the subversive must be ready to subvert themselves. I may dress for myself, but I undress for everybody else, whereas he never did that - he was never prepared to drop a bomb on everything he did.

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

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

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