I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.

A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.

The goal is to know how not-to-know.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, "If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.