Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

Sensuality, wanting a religion, invented Love.

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.

My only books were women's looks.

Perhaps a reign of powerful women is necessary to make, or unmake when need be, powerful men. Women would not waste so readily and uselessly the lives they had such care and pain in bearing. Why should they submit to the massacre of the innocent, one generation after another ... and allow them to be brought up as live-stock for the inevitable killing?

Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.

if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem.