I can only see death and more death, till we are black and swollen with death.

Anatomy presupposes a corpse; psychology presupposes a world of corpses.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

It was not the passion that was new to her, it was the yearning adoration. She knew she had always feared it, for it left her helpless; she feared it still, lest if se adored him too much, then she would lose herself, become effaced, and she did not want to be effaced, a slave, like a savage woman. She must not become a slave. She feared her adoration, yet she would not at once fight against it.

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

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

A man and a woman are new to one another throughout a life-time, in the rhythm of marriage that matches the rhythm of the year. Sex is the balance of male and female in the universe, the attraction, the repulsion, the transit of neutrality, the new attraction, the repulsion, always different, always new.