"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
"It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
"It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
"I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose!"
"Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
"When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."