“Seeing that a simple pressure of the handCan make the symbol of my senses stand,What if I saw your body, where uniteThe lure of water and the gold of light.”

“As the boy looked at it, my thing moved and he whispered "It is splendid! Do let me try its love-making" ...And I was too polite to disobey.”

“Of a slim-waisted deer-swift boy... My tongue remembers and is young.”

“Then, as on the night before, we lay down together and I proved how great our friendship had become.”

“Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of liberty.”

“Granted that I know little of my real self, still, I am the best evidence for myself. And though, when I have quitted this world, it will matter nothing to me what people say of me, up to the moment of death we should strive to leave behind us something which can either Comfort, Amuse, Instruct, or Benefit the living; and though I cannot do either, execpt in a small degree, even that little should be given.”

“I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.”