Eternity - waste of time.

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.

I am not a bibliophile but a humanophile: I look for rare human beings.

albinos aren't reproached for having pink eyes and whitish hair, why should they hold it again me for being a lesbian? It's a question of nature: my queerness isn't a vice, isn't 'deliberate,' and harms no one.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.