She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.

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

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.

Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, believing community, active in fulfilling some unfulfilled, perhaps unrealized purpose.