It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
We're supposed to see "universal" love as heterosexual. What I insist upon in my work is that there is no such thing as universal love in literature.
But Kinky Friedman comes across as No. 1 on my belief list.
I paint stupid things; that's what I do. I can't think of anything more boring than a really beautiful thing. You have to mess it up. There has to be something a little kinky to keep their attention.
I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage.