Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized.

The carnal contact side by side, from heel to armpit, brings shudders that shake up nature like the flights of nocturnal birds.

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

For each man there awaits... a particular image capable of annihilating the entire universe.

As if one could do what one wanted with one's own body!

Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.