Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

I had got to the dawn of the beautiful not caring, but fully aware, stage, which degenerates so imperceptibly into the doing something unpermissible stage.

I am unable, mentally incapable, of relating the dead thing, the broken body refusing to divulge why or where the occupant has gone, to the thing that was alive.

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.