“The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is ...” — Marquis de Sade Quote

“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?”

“I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.”

“It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.”

“Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.”

“History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.”

“As I live my normal life, I hope to find something that click starts a thought, and then something totally unrelated would arise, and then maybe a third unconnected element would come from nowhere.”