“At the street corner, a one-storey house built of freestone, but repulsively decrepit and filthy, seemed to command the entrance, like a gaol. And here, indeed, lived La Méchain, like a vigilant pr...”

“Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?”

“Why then should money be blamed for all the dirt and crimes it causes? For is love less filthy - love which creates life?”

“Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.”

“Who is to blame? The filth peddler, of course, but even more than this vulgar entertainer, the filth consumer, the public. So long as men are corrupt and revel in sewer filth, entertainers will sel...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”