I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.