Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

When all comes to all, the most precious element in life is wonder. Love is a great emotion, and power is power. But both love and power are based on wonder.

The great home of the soul is the open road.