126 Quotes by Anton LaVey

The Black Dahlia, she was someone who was just waiting for an executioner, waiting for it to happen. She was an ideal victim. I've met quite a few like her. They're just crying out, not just to be killed, but also tortured. She seemed very parasitic, a psychic vampire.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

I tend to clam up with a tape recorder in front of me-I hesitate for prudent reasons, so I don't say as much.

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith...

The carnival was the predecessor to the burlesque world-this all tied together, the psychic, the hypnotic... That gave me a good foundation for playing the girlie shows, my opportunity to play for female dancers. I also played midway music and worked the sex shows.

I give people Ayn Rand with trappings,

There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals & speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence & there is no psychic drain

I never met a person who loved everybody I didn't dislike.