"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are oblige…"

"Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change."

"My only religion is pleasure."

"Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?"

"The only real crime is to be boring."