The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

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.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

UNESCO is the conscience of the United Nations.

Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

Women are the field that produces our nation. And if you can't protect your women, you can't protect your nation.

The receptivity of the artist must never be confused with passivity. Receptivity is the artist's holding him or herself alive and open to hear what being may speak.

The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.

Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.