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

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

The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action.

The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.

There is an eternal vital correspondence between our blood and the sun: there is an eternal vital correspondence between our nerves and the moon. If we get out of contact and harmony with the sun and moon, then both turn into great dragons of destruction against us.

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.