The next stage of development, perhaps in the distant future, will be a social order under which there will be no need for the coercive power of the state.

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

Literature is painting, architecture, and music.

If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.

What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.

The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")