Madeleine LeClerc You can't be a proper writer without a touch of madness, can't you? Madeleine LeClerc How can we know who is good - and who is evil? Abbe du Coulmier All we can do is guard against our own corruption. Abbe de Columier It's nothing but an encyclopedia of perversions. One man killed his wife after reading them. Madeleine LeClerc It's a fiction, not a moral treatise.