All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

You don't learn algebra with your blessed soul. Can't you look at it with your clear simple wits?

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.