Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition." "And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages on the depths of the seven seas, and through the salt they reel with drunken delight and in the tropics tremble they with love and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

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

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.

I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing to a vicious luxury, and Whitechapel cursing to a filthy debauchery - such suffering, such dreadful suffering - and shall the short years of Christ's mission atone for it all?