In masturbation there is nothing but loss.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

I'll do my life work, sticking up for the love between man and woman.

She had borne so long the cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him.

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, can reveal the most secret places of life: for it is the passional secret places of life, above all, that the tide of sensitive awareness needs to ebb and flow, cleansing and freshening.