All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.

I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

Let us be kind to make a difference in someone's life.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.

The thing that I love, especially after sound check, is when I'm in that stadium alone. It's complete silence. I love that.

The nature of the All moved to make the universe.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.

The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition.

The Universe provides abundantly when you're in a state of gratefulness.