What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

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?

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

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.

Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.

There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.