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.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.