The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.

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

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.

I am turned into a dream. I feel nothing, or I don't know what I feel. Yet it seems to me I am happy.

The unhappiness of a wife with a good husband is much more devastating than the unhappiness of a wife with a bad husband.

I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.