You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

Brave people add up to an aristocracy. The democracy of thou-shalt-not is bound to be a collection of weak men.

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of them. It is allpurely secondary--and more decadent than the most hide-bound intellectualism.

You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.