An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.

And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. "There seems to be plenty of it", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.