Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Nobody sees with his eyes alone; we see with our souls.

It is true I swim in a perpetual sea of sex but the actual excursions are fairly limited.

I don’t think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

The struggle is to synchronize the potential being with the actual being, to make a fruitful liaison between the man of yesterday and the man of tomorrow.

The real leader has no need to lead—he is content to point the way.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.