One of the most effective means of seduction that Evil has is the challenge to struggle. It is like the struggle with women, whichends in bed. A married man's true deviations from the path of virtue are, rightly understood, never gay.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.

Love has as few problems as a motor car. The only problems are the driver, the passengers, and the road.

I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.