Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

I assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.

Religions are the cradles of despotism.