All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

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

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

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

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

Education is a change of mind, an acceptance, and an assimilation.

Passion is the fire that gets us moving and keeps us motivated regardless of what roadblocks impede the way.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?

I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk.

There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.