He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

What we want is to destroy our false, inorganic connections, especially those related to money, and re-establish the living organic connections, with the cosmos, the sun and earth, with mankind and nation and family. Start with the sun, and the rest will slowly, slowly happen.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.