Truth does not lie beyond humanity, but is one of the products of the human mind and feeling.

I love Italian opera - it's so reckless. Damn Wagner, and his bellowings at Fate and death. Damn Debussy, and his averted face. I like the Italians who run all on impulse, and don't care about their immortal souls, and don't worry about the ultimate.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.