Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.

The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.

Women are outside the law; they make nothing, they say yes or no to some collections of whereases.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

A mother! What are we worth really? They all grow up whether you look after them or not.