Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

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

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.