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

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.

There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.