What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others.

I never miss England.

Vienna is cold, and dark, and sad. It is laid out as though for a royal parade; the streets are wide and they're flanked by monumental buildings, decorated with the faces of angry gods. And on the roof are statues of national heroes, wielding weapons of destruction.

To my disappointment I now realized that to know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

People are not heterosexual or homosexual, just sexual.