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

I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the individual to ask himself: Is my reaction individual, or am I merely reacting from my mob-self? When it comes to the so-called obscene words, I should say that hardly one person in a million escapes mob-reaction.

The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.