In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

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.

Distortion is part of desire. We always change the things we want.

Do you think a sociopath cries to God as they die? Ironic that one counterfeit being would cry out to another for help, said Chiron.

The poor are not allowed to own thoughts, he told his young son.

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

The saddest fact I've learned is nobody matters less to our society than young black women. Nobody.

The world as it is perceived by most people, is a world of finite resources.

I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.

A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.