You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

I don't believe any more in democracy. But I can't believe in the old sort of aristocracy, either, nor can I wish it back, splendid as it was. What I believe in is the old Homeric aristocracy, when the grandeur was inside a man, and he lived in a simple wooden house.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.