There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

The nice clean intimacy which we now so admire between the sexes is sterilizing. It makes neuters. Later on, no deep, magical sex-life is possible.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit by them.

My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up in us. It is how we know that we are alive, alive to the depths of our souls and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.