It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

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

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.