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

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!

The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

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.