“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.”

“Hell isother people!”

“So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot poke...”

“I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.”

“Much more likely youll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If Ive got to suffer, it may as well be at your hands, your pretty hands.”

“You're lucky. I'm always conscious of myself in my mind. Painfully conscious.”

“I would rather drown in the depths of Love than splash around on the shore of complacency.”

“The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be se...”

“You or I might think that at least one would show courage and put up a fight. But neither you nor I have suffered as they, and even we have born witness in silence to lesser ills under less dire th...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“Knowing the self is the biggest truth. If we find the truth within, we have found God.”

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”