Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.

America cannot afford to defend Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and many other places.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

There is a woe that is wisdom, a woe that is madness.

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!

In this century, the 21st century, the U.S. recognizes our prosperity and our security depends even more on the Asia-Pacific region.

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own.