Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.

Hatred as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

I am good. I live good. I think good. I don't have to feel good to be good, I take my goodness wherever I go.

Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant.

I get more emails and calls when it comes to money than probably any other single person on television when it comes to money.

Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.