there is no pornography without a secrecy.

America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.

People always make war when they say they love peace.

I shall always be a priest of love.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.