I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

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 sky is not the limit, but my thoughts are.

It doesn't cost anything more to be nice.

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

In point of fact magicians appear to have often developed into chiefs and kings.

I didn't really start writing music or lyrics or turning them into songs until I went to San Francisco.

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

When you are identified with the One, all things will be complete to you.