One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

If it doesn't absorb you, if it isn't any fun, don't do it.

In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.