One would go mad if one took the Bible seriously; but to take it seriously one must be already mad.
Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them...
Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! – is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.