I want to be the victim of his errors.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

To be set free, turn away from your sins. And return to God of great mercy.

Well, you should have a chat with your boyfriend, clarify your desires. Hate to break the news, but, uh, he’s cheatin’ on you. Tell him I said my dog kisses better than him and he hits like a girl.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.

I have no warm up exercises, other than to take an occasional drink.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

One of the reasons that I do a lot of different kinds of pictures is because I learn a lot when I'm doing them.

Riches do not come by crossing your fingers and walking through the day hoping. Riches and wealth comes from well-laid plans.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.