Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

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

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

Obscenity only comes in when the mind despises and fears the body, and the body hates and resists the mind.