I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.

Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.