“There's a taste in my mouth and it's no taste at all.- Queen Bitch”

“There's a terror in knowing what the world is about”

“It's not the side-effects of the cocaine - I'm thinking that it must be love.It's too late to be grateful,It's too late to be hateful,It's too late to be late again,The European canon is here.- Station to Station”

“If it works, it's out of date.”

“Some make you sing and some make you scream,One makes you wish that you'd never been seen.But there's a shop on the corner that's selling papier-mache,Making bullet-proof faces, Charlie Manson, Cassius Clay.If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.- Sweet Thing”

“No more free steps to heaven.- It's No Game”

“This is a mad planet," David Bowie said in 1971. "It's doomed to madness.”