"I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would pick."

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."

"If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth."

"I am a genius of an artist; I have a genius for living."

"I want to kill myself, to escape from responsibility, to crawl back abjectly into the womb."