I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.

The Orgasmic Death Gimmick is rather complicated. It could be called the whole birth-death cycle of action, persuading people that birth and death are realities.