"Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, w…"

"The universe is a chaos, and man is a part of that chaos."

"What is more immoral than war?"

"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated."

"How many times, by God's bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to pluck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and…"