Do What Thou Wilt Shall

To Read A Newspaper Is To Refrain From Reading Something Worth While. The First Discipline Of Education Must Therefore Be To Refuse Resolutely To Feed The Mind With Canned Chatter.

I Was Asked To Memorise What I Did Not Understand; And, My Memory Being So Good, It Refused To Be Insulted In That Manner.

If One Had To Worry About One's Actions In Respect Of Other People's Ideas, One Might As Well Be Buried Alive In An Antheap Or Married To An Ambitious Violinist. Whether That Man Is The Prime Minister, Modifying His Opinions To Catch Votes, Or A Bourgeois In Terror Lest Some Harmless Act Should Be Misunderstood And Outrage Some Petty Convention, That Man Is An Inferior Man And I Do Not Want To Have Anything To Do With Him Any More Than I Want To Eat Canned Salmon.

I Have Been Accused Of Being A ‘black Magician.’ No More Foolish Statement Was Ever Made About Me. I Despise The Thing To Such An Extent That I Can Hardly Believe In The Existence Of People So Debased And Idiotic As To Practice It.

To Me A Book Is A Message From The Gods To Mankind; Or, If Not, Should Never Be Published At All. A Message From The Gods Should Be Delivered At Once. It Is Damnably Blasphemous To Talk About The Autumn Season And So On. How Dare The Author Or Publisher Demand A Price For Doing His Duty, The Highest And Most Honorable To Which A Man Can Be Called?