Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.