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

You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.