Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

When love turns into dust, money becomes the substitution.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.