"My only religion is pleasure."

"This is my real bed-rock objection to the eastern systems. They decry all manly virtue as dangerous and wicked, and they look upon Nature as evil."

"The Beast 666 is only the sun. My duty is to bring mankind to the realization of this fact."

"I am a man of my century, and I write for my century."

"The more I see of the world, the more I am convinced that the only way to be happy is to be mad."