Every intentional act is a magical act.

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

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

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.