In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

The English people on the whole are surely the nicest people in the world, and everybody makes everything so easy for everyone else, that there is almost nothing to resist at all.

I am a man and alive. For this reason I am a novelist. And, being a novelist, I consider myself superior to the saint, te scientist, the philosopher, and the poet, who are all great masters of different bits of man alive, but never get the whole hog....Only in the novel are all things given full play.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.