Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

Sleep is a hint of lovely oblivion.

Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.

I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.