“The essential thing is to elongate the women and especially to make them slim. After that it just remains to enlarge their jewels. They are ravished.”

“It is the army that finally makes a citizen of you; without it you still have a chance, however slim, to remain a human being.”

“In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them. In vile states, the children are always wanting to be men and women, and the parents to keep them children.”

“A jewel is sought after and has not to seek.”

“Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!”

“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”

“We walked back to iDEATH, holding hands. Hands are very nice things, especially after they have travelled back from making love.”

“The only thing that makes life worth living is the possibility of experiencing now and then a perfect moment. And perhaps even more than that, it's having the ability to recall such moments in their totality, to contemplate them like jewels.”

“Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.”

“By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.”