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

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

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

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