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

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.

I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it is dual, because it is of two opposing kinds.

She knew that the horse, born to serve nobly, had waited in vain for someone noble to serve. His spirit knew that nobility had gone out of men.

You're always begging things to love you," he said, "as if you were a beggar for love. Even the flowers, you have to fawn on them--

It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.