Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

I shall always be a priest of love.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.