The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

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

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.