The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

And it seems to me a blasphemy to say that the Holy Spirit is Love. In the Old Testament it is an Eagle: in the New it is a Dove.Christ insists on the Dove: but in His supreme moments He includes the Eagle.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

It's autumn and everybody feels like a disembodied spirit then.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!