Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence..

I don't want to disappear..

Betrayal is beautiful..

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me..

...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them,….

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them..

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all..

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure kno….

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her..

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments..

Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One c….

The vaporish cocaine loosens the contours of their lives and sets their bodies adrift, and so they are untouchable..

There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivi….

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty..

Anyone who's never experienced the pleasure of betrayal doesn't know what pleasure is..

First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it al….

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger..

I'm homosexual. How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green..

I leave you free to imagine any dialogue you please. Choose whatever may charm you. Have it, if you like, that they hear the voice of the blood, or t….

In order to weep, I had descended to the realm of the dead themselves, to their secret chambers, led by the invisible but soft hands of birds down st….

If we behave like those on the other side, then we are the other side. Instead of changing the world, all we'll achieve is a reflection of the one we….