Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

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.

The most important thing in life is to know what you truly want. Then finding it is easy.

My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.

At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock.

I find that the history books that we teach our kids with are not fully truthful, in my opinion.

Art is endless like a river flowing, passing, yet remaining.

Most everyone seems willing to be a fool himself, but he can't bear to have anyone else one.

Any man who lives by his beliefs is to be admired, not mocked.

It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor.

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me.

If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.