I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

A little morphine in all the air. It would be wonderfully refreshing for everyone.

Men! The only animal in the world to fear.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors, to get free from their authority.