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.

The key of joy is disobedience.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

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

If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.