We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.