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

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

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

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

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.

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all. A message from the gods should be delivered at once. It is damnably blasphemous to talk about the autumn season and so on. How dare the author or publisher demand a price for doing his duty, the highest and most honorable to which a man can be called?