"Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all."

"Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her her energy, but none of our wreckings can weaken her power."

"There is no God, nor any of those things that are called virtues."

"There is a sum of evil equal to the sum of good, the continuing equilibrium of the world requires that there be as many good people as wicked people..."

"I am a monster, and I am proud of it."