Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

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.

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

If a man is proud of you in public, he will always be proud of you.

You won't ever know, unless you try!

What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.

Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

The short-story writer knows that he can't proceed cumulatively, that time is not his ally. His only solution is to work vertically, heading up or down in literary space.

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.