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 did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

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