You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of only one thought, one sensation, one will.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

I wish you could be kissed, Jane, ' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

Loving someone is waking up a little bit earlier than they do so you can pray for their day.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

I'm proud to be involved with Simon Cowell and 'X Factor.

I love to make people laugh and love to make people smile. The first time I performed and heard the applause, that was the sound that I wanted to hear for the rest of my life.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

I think we’re like farm animals before an earthquake.