The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.

Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things.