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.

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

It is no good casting out devils. They belong to us, we must accept them and be at peace with them.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.

I want us to be together without bothering about ourselves- to be really together because we ARE together, as if it were a phenomenon, not a thing we have to maintain by our own effort.