One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

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.

I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

You write in order to change the world.

The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.

To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.