I am part of the sun as my eye is of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.

Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board