What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

I believe that the highest virtue is to be happy, living in the greatest truth, not submitting to the falsehood of these personaltimes.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.