I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.