Art- speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar but his art, if it be art, will tell you the truth of his day and that is all that matters. Away with eternal truth. The truth lives from day to day, and the marvelous Plato of yesterday is chiefly bosh today.

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.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.