Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman?

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.

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

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Do not forget to love yourself.

If Chicago doesn't fix the horrible carnage going on I will send in the feds.

I have a terrific headache.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

You decide which ones makes more sense, which is more practical and more logical to accept.

As destruction goes, the monster said behind him, this is all remarkably pitiful.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print