Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

Vitally, the human race is dying. It is like a great uprooted tree, with its roots in the air. We must plant ourselves again in the universe.

I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

The mind is "ashamed" of the blood. And the blood is destroyed by the mind, actually. Hence palefaces.