You are afraid of the people unrestrained-how ridiculous!

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.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

Faith is a belief in divine God.

Smart radiation researchers use radiation resistance health techniques in order to offset the known biological harm of their toxic radiation exposures.

You look at 30 Seconds to Mars, and you don't think, 'Ooh, I bet they're angry.' No one really does anger these days. I suppose it's a turn-off.

I think it's awesome to be able to make people laugh.

The more time you invest in something, potentially, the deeper the emotional impact of the climax. It's true of relationships, too.

I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.

Happiness doesn't come from money and material things, but from the self-expression they can offer you.

Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!