Don't you see, if when we die there's nothing, all your sun and fields and what not are all, ah, horror? It's just an ocean of horror.

Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

The difficulty is, all swing thoughts decay, like radium. What burnt up the course on Wednesday has turned to lead on Sunday. Yet it does not do to have a blank mind: the terrible hugeness of the course will rush into the vacuum and the ball will spray like a thing berserk.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.