Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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

The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.