Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.

I can’t help being a gorgeous fiend. It’s just the card I drew.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.

My efforts with Hollywood are like things written in water.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.