“Sensible people advise against drinking on an empty stomach, but to my mind it is the best sort of drinking.”

“Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness.”

“When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.”

“Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience. 'I feel really guilty about getting drunk last night,' we say, when in actual fact we feel no guilt whatsoever or, at least, we could choose to feel no guilt. When people say to me, 'I drank too much last night,' I always reply, 'I drank exactly the right amount.”

“It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .”

“Being safe is fiction.”

“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”