It seemed to me that boys had a lot more fun. It was a relief. I didn't look at myself from the outside. I just lived inside my skin, looking out.

On the occasions that he did look up from the page, he would seem as though he were awakening from a dream.

I honestly don't think you do, at least not completely. Look, you will always hold a special place in my heart, but I can’t keep competing for a battle that’s already won.

For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.

I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

You need something. Not just to get through the day, but to get through the incarnation. You need to find that power, that perfect unity.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

The weasel under the cocktail cabinet.

Once a song comes out, these songs aren't mine. They're everybody's. So there you go.

Strange is the night where black stars rise, And strange moons circle through the skies