The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

They wanted genuine intimacy, but they could not get even normally near to anyone, because they scorned to take the first steps, they scorned the triviality which forms common human intercourse.

The living moment is everything.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.