"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."

"The only happiness we can enjoy is that which we procure for ourselves at the expense of others."

"How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little e…"

"The greatest beauty is to be found in deformity."

"I have no remorse, no regrets, no fear."