A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.

Where is the source of all money-sickness, and the origin of all sex-perversion?.... It lies in the heart of man, and not in the conditions.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

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

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.