Spiritually, the society we have is the society of men with women present only in adjunctive relation to them, not the society of men and women in reciprocal relation. We do not have the society of human beings.

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just because there is no logical place for it, no room in reality for it. It is unreal, and yet real as something unreal.

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.