"What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you... every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornic…"

"I am a writer, and I write to shock."

"I cannot bring myself to fear a God who is either spiteful or weak. I defy him without fear and care not a fig for his thunderbolts."

"The only true philosopher is the one who dares to think everything."

"There is no evil but that which is done to oneself."