The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

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.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.