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

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

Creation is not a light-hearted game. The creator commits to a terrible adventure, which is to take up-on himself all of the dangers that his creatures run.

The most reasonable man always manages, when he pulls the trigger, to become a dispenser of justice.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

The pimp has a grin, never a smile.

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

On him, under him, with his mouth pressed to hers, he sang to her uncouth songs that moved through her body.

Poetry is the break (or rather the meeting at the breaking point) between the visible and the invisible.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you.

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

I don’t want to disappear.

It’s a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.

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

Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible as a melody cut in a disc of flesh. A composer lets me hear a song that has always been shut up silent within me.

If we lack confidence, we may dislike people who are bold and courageous because they remind us of our shortcomings. 

Only you can master your mind, which is what it takes to live a bold life filled with accomplishments most people consider beyond their capability.

My love, you have a heart of gold, it’s precious, beautiful, and bold.

Democrats have power, we have to be bold in a way we have not seen since FDR in the 1930s.

How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.

I don’t fear anybody at all.

Be bold; be strong. The Lord your God is with you.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.