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

Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.

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

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

It will be seen that the formula - 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law' has nothing to do with 'Do as you please.' It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.

The word of Sin is Restriction