"I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts."

"The more one degrades, the more one stimulates."

"Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change."

"A pretty girl ought simply to concern herself with fucking, and never with engendering."

"One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater."