“The thing about punk is that you’re allowed to talk about anything. Kids can talk about whatever they want. There’s nobody saying, ‘No, you can’t do that, it’s not punk.’”

»Three hundred people left The House that Jack Built. I think that’s very good, and it wasn’t Cannes.«

Iggy showed the error of human existence, the breathless nearness of death, and the lure of fun and action. He was like a much better-looking version of Schopenhauer.

The key to survival will lay in female hands.

What Reena really wanted to know was why – in a night club, for example – do we chose, always and above all, that nothing happens?”

“There is something deeply humiliating in such a situation.”