Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

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.

If I take my whole, passionate, spiritual and physical love to the woman who in return loves me, that is how I serve God. And my hymn and my game of joy is my work.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.