"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, …"

"There is no better way to know death than to link it with some licentious image."

"I have spent my life in prisons, and I have found the solitude to be a great source of inspiration."

"There is no act more sublime than that of destruction."

"The imagination is the most marvelous of all the senses."