I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.