The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

An illusion which is a real experience is worth having.

You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego ... things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.