When we really want to go for something better, we shall smash the old. Until then, any sort of proposal, or making proposals, is no more than a tiresome game for self-important people.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

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

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.

All hopes of eternity and all gain from the past he would have given to have her there, to be wrapped warm with him in one blanket, and sleep, only sleep. It seemed the sleep with the woman in his arms was the only necessity.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.