How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

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.

All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

Children are wise in a funny kind of way. They haven't developed so many vested interests of self. There is a wisdom, a lack of self-consciousness, that is innocence.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

MGM never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles, but cast me in programme pictures.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

Homer Simpson has been more inspirational to me than probably any cartoon character. What he represents, I think, there's a part of that in everybody. There certainly is in me, and I love that.

I'm curious how people build up the codes that they live their life by, and how they come to think that that's the best way for them to function.

I don't need the fame right now; I'm not running from the law.

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it