"If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience …"

"Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?"

"The essence of pleasure is in its excess."

"I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties."

"But I am not complaining, I cherish my vices, I abhor virtue; I am the sworn enemy of all religions, of all gods and godlings, I fear neither the ills of life nor what follows death; and when you're l…"