The weakness of modern tragedy[is that] transgression against the social code is made to bring destruction, as though the social code worked our irrevocable fate.

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.

Why has mankind had such a craving to be imposed upon? Why this lust after imposing creeds, imposing deeds, imposing buildings, imposing language, imposing works of art? The thing becomes an imposition and a weariness at last. Give us things that are alive and flexible, which won't last too long and become an obstruction and a weariness. Even Michelangelo becomes at last a lump and a burden and a bore. It is so hard to see past him.