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.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

There's nothing wrong with sexual feelings in themselves, so long as they are straightforward and not sneaking or sly. The right sort of sex stimulus is invaluable to human daily life. Without it the world grows grey.

The man who had died looked nakedly on life, and saw a vast resoluteness everywhere flinging itself up in stormy or subtle wave-crests.... always the man who had died saw not the bird alone, but the short, sharp wave of life of which the bird was the crest.

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.