A burnt child dreads the fire.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.