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

Man has little needs and deeper needs. We have fallen into the mistake of living from our little needs till we have almost lost our deeper needs in a sort of madness.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything. What is a nation for, but to secure the maximum liberty to every individual?

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.