I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Any inhibition must be wrong, since inevitably in the end it causes neurosis and insanity.

Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

One should stick by one's soul, and by nothing else. In one's soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one's own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors.

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

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.