“To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.”

“The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.”

“Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?-The man without purpose.”

“Because the beauty of the human body is that it hasn't a single muscle which doesn't serve its purpose; that there's not a line wasted; that every detail of it fits one idea, the idea of a man and the life of a man.”

“Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.”

“I mean the one that claims the pig is the symbol of love for humanity--the creature that accepts anything. As a matter of fact, the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him.”

“For my purpose, the non-fiction form of abstract knowledge doesn’t interest me; the final, applied form of fiction, of story, does.”