''But--criminals are remote from you--as in love, they turn away and turn me away from the world and its laws. Thiers smells of sweat, sperm, and blood. In short, to my body and my thristy soul it offers devotion. It was because their world contains these erotic conditions that I was bent on evil.''

''Yet, what is their violence compared to mine, which was to accept theirs, to make it mine, to wish it for myself, to intercept it, to utilize it, to force it…

''With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable.'' [In reference to the French Gestapo]

''To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.''