Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy me. To-day I am proud to say that I am inhuman, that I belong not to men and governments, that I have nothing to do with creeds and principles. I have nothing to do with the creaking machinery of humanity - I belong to the earth!