Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

Let there be an end ... of all this welter of pity, which is only self-pity reflected onto some obvious surface.

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.