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

We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

At the back of my life's horizon, where the dreamings of past lives crowd.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.