That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.