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

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

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?

I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.

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

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.