Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

Jazz is the music of the body.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling, inventions, moods, no surprises in bed. Sex must be mixed with tears, laughter, words, promises, scenes, jealousy, envy, all of the spices of fear, foreign travel, new faces, novels, stories, dreams, fantasies, music, dancing, opium, wine.

Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.