“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”

“I desire therefore I exist.”

“I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.”

“The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.”

“There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.”

“In his diabolic solitude, only the possibility of love could awake the libertine to perfect, immaculate terror. It is in this holy terror of love that we find, in both men and women themselves, the source of all opposition to the emancipation of women.”

“Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.”