An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

The more you know, the more you see

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind.