“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

“Sade has barely made a dent on American academic consciousness. It is his violence far more than his sex which is so hard for liberals to accept. For Sade, sex is violence. Violence is the authentic spirit of mother nature.”

“The only thing more difficult than persuading someone else to start having sex with you is persuading yourself to stop.”

“Man's death by sins is more than his death by fate and his life by charity is more than his life by age.”

“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”

“Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm.”

“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”

“There are only two subjects that matters, one is sex and the other is death, what else we could talk about it. And most the cinema talks all the time about sex and death. And my cinema deals with sex and death so… ¿what's the problem?”

“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

“Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.”