And if tonight my soul may find her peace in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower then I have been dipped again in God, and new-created.

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.

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.