Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

Work on one thing at a time until finished.