"When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back."

"I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander."

"This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect."

"We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them."

"A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?"

"Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself."

"The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea."

In vain we labour at the loathsome task Not knowing if we wake or sleep ; But in the end we lift the plum

"She it is, she, that found me In the morphia honeymoon; With silk and steel she bound me In her poisonous milk she drowned me, Even now her arms surround me"

"We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia."

"Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!"

"I do not think we were afraid of death; life had become such an infinitely boring alternation between a period of stimulation which failed to stimulate and of depression which hardly even depressed."

"To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death."

"Chaos is Peace… Blackness, blackness intolerable, before the beginning of the light. This is the first verse of Genesis. Holy art thou, Chaos, Chaos, Eternity, all contradictions in terms!"

"A red rose absorbs all colors but red; red is therefore the one color that it is not."

"Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell."

"The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it."

"Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics."

"He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason."

"The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript."

"Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them..."

"We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige."

"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life...."

"What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over."