Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

Come now, don't make such a funeral face. It isn't dying that's sad; it's living when you're not happy.

There is a diabolical streak in me, a troublesome and inexplicable perversity.

‎The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.

Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.