I would rather sit still in a state of peace on a stone than ride in the motor-car of a multi-millionaire and feel the peacelessness of the multi-millionaire poisoning me.

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

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

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.

It's terrible, once you've got a man into your blood!" she said.