Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

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

You can have your cake and eat it. But my God, it will go rotten inside you.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.