"I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them."

"One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad."

"May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!"

"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."

"Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence."

"The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices."

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law."

"Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will."

"Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people."