You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.

You will not easily get a man to believe that his carnal love for the woman he has made his wife is as high a love as that he feltfor his mother or sister.

The lion shall never lie down with the lamb. The lion eternally shall devour the lamb, the lamb eternally shall be devoured. Man knows the great consummation in the flesh, the sensual ecstasy, and that is eternal. Also the spiritual ecstasy of unanimity, that is eternal. But the two are separate and never to be confused.

Sleep seems to hammer out for me the logical conclusions of my vague days, and offer them to me as dreams.

I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.