But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.