For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

there is no pornography without a secrecy.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.