All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.