Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.

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.

Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.