“My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.”

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”

“The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future. ”

“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“You, who know all the secrets of life, tell me how to charm Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous, I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship her!”

“I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand”