We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

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

Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

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.

I want to be the victim of his errors.

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.