To Me A Book Is A Message

Inevitably Anyone With An Independent Mind Must Become 'one Who Resists Or Opposes Authority Or Established Conventions': A Rebel. If Enough People Come To Agree With, And Follow, The Rebel, We Now Have A Devil. Until, Of Course, Still More People Agree. And Then, Finally, We Have --- Greatness.

The Quest Of The Holy Grail, The Search For The Stone Of The Philosophers-by Whatever Name We Choose To Call The Great Work-is Therefore Endless. Success Only Opens Up New Avenues Of Brilliant Possibility.

I Do Not Want To Father A Flock, To Be The Fetish Of Fools And Fanatics Or The Founder Of A Faith Whose Followers Are Content To Echo My Opinions. I Want Each Man To Cut His Own Way Through The Jungle.

You Can Only Accomplish Your Object In Life By Complete Disregard Of The Opinions Of Other People.

To Me, Every Dirty Act Was Simply A Sacrament Of Sin, A Passionately Religious Protest Against Christianity, Which Was For Me The Symbol Of All Vileness, Meanness, Treachery, Falsehood And Oppression.