People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available.

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

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

People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace.

Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't, he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff like that. Dandyism is much more austere-much more Calvinistic, more neurotic - it oscillates between narcissism and neurosis.