Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

There are mornings when all men experience with fatigue a flush of tenderness that makes them horny.

Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind.

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger.

Prisons! Prisons! Prisons, dungeons, blessed places where evil is impossible since they are the crossroads of all the malediction in the world. One cannot commit evil in evil.