Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

The key of joy is disobedience.

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

A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.

It's no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.