The novel is a perfect medium for revealing to us the changing rainbow of our living relationships. The novel can help us to live,as nothing else can: no didactic Scripture, anyhow. If the novelist keeps his thumb out of the pan.

My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.