"I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers."

"There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will."

"All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?"

"Sex is the gateway to life."

"Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind."

"The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin."

"Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction."