Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful chords awake in us, and vibrate again after many hundreds of years of complete forgetfulness.

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

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.