Marquis de Sade

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.