Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.