We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.

Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

How to begin to educate a child. First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

One might talk about the sanity of the atom the sanity of space the sanity of the electron the sanity of water- For it is all alive and has something comparable to that which we call sanity in ourselves. The only oneness is the oneness of sanity.

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.