The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

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 novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Try to find your deepest issue in every confusion, and abide by that.

I am in love and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man.

The sense of wonder, that is our sixth sense.