Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne Quotes

“By all accounts, my left foot has something very feminine about it. It's curvy, like Suzanne. The flesh is milky, and the skin is delicate just like the skin on Suzanne's temples, with the veins clearly marked in blue. The nails are pearly, the toes long and dainty like fingers. The instep has none of the unattractiveness so evident in other parts of my body. It has an elegance shared only with Suzanne.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“Why is my skull covered with hair? To make it look like my genitals?”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“I'm absolutely alone in this strange city, and I have a bad foot. I don't dare even move for fear of precipitating yet another crisis. I breathe softly, and think carefully. No sudden ideas, the shock could be fatal. It's a poor kind of protagonist really who just lies around on his bed.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“My spirit is incapable of raising itself up from the floor. Divine gravity dictates this law to me: as my body resides at ground level, there must my soul rot.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“I pace up and down from one wall to the other talking to myself like a patient in a mental hospital. That naked body I catch sight of every time I pass the mirror makes me feel like throwing up. The grey flesh with its covering of black hairs somehow attracts me and disgusts me at the same time.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“A long time ago I learned to fear pains that arise at the top of my body, toothaches or migraines, but now I have discovered the extraordinary range of the information network. Somewhere, far away from my brain, a piece of leather is cutting into my heel, but even so my brain receives the information perfectly.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“My left foot is the best part of me.
It's Suzanne.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“Other people aren't like me in the slightest, I find. I admit though I prefer to know they are happy, just to be on the safe side. If not, they can be dangerous. I don't like seeing their blood, not at all, nor their guts, all that disgusts me. And if anyone deserves pity, it's me. The others will have to manage by themselves. They weren't any worse off before I was born, and they won't be any better off after I'm dead.”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne

“From now on, I shall only have eyes for my right foot!”
― Roland Topor, Head-to-Toe Portrait of Suzanne