“To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.”

“Adam wants to know what took you so long?"Tell him I had wild, passionate sex with a complete stranger.”

“The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.”

“I don’t think that you should tell me that you love me wildly, passionately, devotedly, hopelessly.  Hopelessly doesn’t seem to make much sense, does it?”

“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. The only truth I can understand or express is, logically defined, a lie. Psychologically defined, a symbol. Aesthetically defined, a metaphor.”

“The wind blows wild and i may move, politicians lie and i am not fooled you don't need a razor or a three piece suit to argue the truth”