We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what it is... is the only task. Avoid it and you are lost. Loose yourself in it, and you are free.

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

Write with a smile, even when it’s horrible or tragic.