Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

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

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself

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