Being liberated means reading what you want to read, and fantasizing about what you want to fantasize about.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose.