Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

I believe the nearest I've come to perfect love was with a young coal-miner when I was about 16.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

Nothing but love has made the dog lose his wild freedom, to become the servant of man.

And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face.

The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkness, fuming and burning, making the valley clang with their passage. They were gone, and the lights of the towns and villages glittered in silence.