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.

I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

There are vast realms of consciousness still undreamed of -vast ranges of experience, like humming of unseen harps, we know nothing of, within us.

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.