Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

No act can be quite so intimate as the sexual embrace.

All arguments are meaningless until we gain personal experience. One must win one's own place in the spiritual world painfully and alone. There is no other way of salvation. The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a wilderness.

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.