America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you -- no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

One should be religious in everything, have God, whatever God might be, present in everything.

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.