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.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.