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'.

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.

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.

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

We demand an unconditional peace, we demand a cease-fire, a withdrawal of all foreign troops, and closing of the border.... We will find a compromise within the country.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

Your vigor for life appalls me.

I know that if things hadn't gone the way they did then I wouldn't be where I am now.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people