I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Catherine: Why commit Evil? Goetz: Because Good has already been done. Catherine: Who has done it? Goetz: God the Father. I, on the other hand, am improvising.

I can be twenty women, one hundred, if that's what you want, all women. Ride with me behind you, I weigh nothing, your horse will not feel me. I want to be your whorehouse!

It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.