I want to live quietly.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

Let me but make a beginning, let me but strike the world in a vulnerable spot, and I can take it by storm.

A genius who does not know that he is a genius is no genius.

One must always say things that aim to interest, because in the world one must after all pay for one's keep.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.