The Moon is a white strange world, great, white, soft-seeming globe in the night sky, and what she actually communicates to me across space I shall never fully know. But the Moon that pulls the tides, and the Moon that controls the menstrual periods of women, and the Moon that touches the lunatics, she is not the mere dead lump of the astronomist. . . . When we describe the Moon as dead, we are describing the deadness in ourselves. When we find space so hideously void, we are describing our own unbearable emptiness.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

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

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

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