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.

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.

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

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'.

The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape.

Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.

I have always been of the mind that good work is good work, whether performed on stage, on television or in film and, like any reasonable actor, I keep my options open.

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.

All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.

Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.

I will take with me the emptiness of my hands. What you do not have you find everywhere