“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dr...”

“Boulevards are like people: similar in their youth, they undergo gradual change according to what ferments in them.”

“To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.”

“So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.”

“The patrists poison themselves. The matrists tend to decay, which is merely another kind of poison.”

“Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.”

“Let me feel how thy pulses beat.”

“Jesus Christ! A man could only take so much. She yelped as he snatched her up around the waist and sat her on the counter. Sit there and dont move. Dont bat your eyes. Dont lick your lips. Dont get...”

“It was a superstition among them that a lover who smoked would always return, even from France. A man's sexual capacity might be injured by smoking, but they would always prefer a faithful to a pot...”