The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.

I shall always be a priest of love.

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.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

It is time that the Protestant Church, the Church of the Son, should be one again with the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of the Father. It is time that man shall cease, first to live in the flesh, with joy, and then, unsatisfied, to renounce and to mortify the flesh.

The word arse is as much god as the word face. It must be so, otherwise you cut off your god at the waist.