"I write for myself, and for those who resemble me."

"The laws vainly try to talk virtue to the mass, but it's just talk. The people who make the laws are really too biased towards evil and never carry out their fine talk -- they merely make a stab at it…"

"Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?"

"The imagination is the most marvelous of all the senses."

"Nothing that makes one hard is wicked and the only crime in the world is to refuse oneself that pleasure."