Marquis de Sade — "I laugh at everything, because I am afraid of nothing."

"Yes, I am a libertine, I admit it freely. I have dreamed of doing everything that it is possible to dream of in that line. But I have certainly not done all the things I have dreamt of and never shall…"

"I have spent my life in prisons, and I have found the solitude to be a great source of inspiration."

"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, …"

"The greatest pleasure is to imagine what is impossible."

"Crime is the soul of mankind."