“The erotic arts have the same goal as religion; to prevent men from acting like beasts.”
“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”
“In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry”
“The primal sin of those like myself, mes amis, is that because we were once people who acted like beasts, we are forever cursed to be beasts who know they were once men. (“In The Poor Girl Taken By Surprise”)”
“All art is erotic.”
“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.”