There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

It seemed a good idea at the time.