Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything -- except his own nature.

Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.