The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.