Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Having achieved and accomplished love, then the man passes into the unknown. He has become himself, his tale is told.

Man is a thought-adventurer.

As we all know, too much of any divine thing is destruction

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.