Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

The tragedy is when you've got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.