Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

I shall always be a priest of love.

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

The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.