To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.

I think art is sublimated libido. You can’t be a eunuch priest, and you can’t be a eunuch artist.

Every dogma has its day.

Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.