If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night

When I read Shakespeare I am struck with wonder that such trivial people should muse and thunder in such lovely language.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it.

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.

Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.