What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.

To be responsible is to be the uncontested author of an event or thing.

What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.

I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined result of complexes. It is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.