“What was marriage but sex plus property.”

“Its frustration which makes creativity possible.”

“Theres a lot of degradation in sex, isnt there?When its done right.”

“My blackness is spreading, Alice. Ive been seeing and hearing things that cant be there or anywhere. At night, when Im not hallucinating mad women, I can feel depression starting to burn me around ...”

“Plato, along with the latest pope, recognised how dangerous it is to have an artist around making mischief, stirring things up with the spoon of truth and intoxicant of fantasy and magic. And so, f...”

“The writer, indeed every real artist, was the devil, rivalling God in creativity, trying even to surpass him. God was surely mans most fatal creation, the devils kitsch bitch. It was God, with his ...”

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth.”

“Oh Woman, come before us, before our eyes longing for beauty, and tired of the ugliness of civilization, come in simple tunics, letting us see the line and harmony of the body beneath, and dance fo...”

“And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.”

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.”

“I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.”

“You never monkey with the truth.”