"How many times, by God's bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to pluck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and…"

"Cruelty, far from being a vice, is the first sentiment implanted in us by nature."

"The pleasure of love is in the variety of its forms."

"It is only through daring that one can achieve anything great."

"How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little e…"