The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.