"It's time for a new dance to begin... the Dance of Death!"

"[to Prospero] Why should you be afraid to die? Your soul has been dead for a long long time."

"I called many. Peasant and prince... the worthy and the dishonored. Six only are left... a young man and woman... a d…"

"Hear me! [all fall silent] Soon you will be costuming yourselves for the masque. A celebration, my friends. A celebra…"

"Do you know how a falcon is trained, my dear? Her eyes are sewn shut. Blinded temporarily, she suffers the whims of h…"

"Do you command me to wait? Very well, I wait."

"The hostility the film received from the US Catholic Legion of Decency came as a total surprise. I'm a lapsed Catholi…"

"Horror has a face."

"Stare into this face and count if you can the orgies of evil...."

"There is no face of death, until the moment of your own death."