The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac.

Pain was a fascinating horror

Consciousness is only possible through change; change is only possible through movement.

The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.

Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive.