It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

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.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.