"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."

"I have always been a seeker after hidden knowledge."

"An argument with a poet is a conversation with a madman."

"I believe in the transmigration of souls, and that the soul may pass from man to beast."

"The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul."