The dead don't die. They look on and help.

If you believe in your own sex, and won't have it done dirt to: they'll down you. It's the one insane taboo left: sex as a naturaland vital thing.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

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

But, especially in love, only counterfeit emotions exist nowadays. We have all been taught to mistrust everybody emotionally, from parents downwards, or upwards. Don’t trust anybody with your real emotions: if you’ve got any: that is the slogan of today. Trust them with your money, even, but never with your feelings. They are bound to trample on them.