"Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I'd say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel."

"My only pleasure is to do what is forbidden."

"I am a man of my word, and my word is law."

"I have no respect for anything, and I fear nothing."

"Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others."