Religion is simply art bastardized out of all recognition.

A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.

Truth is a matter of direct apprehension-you can't climb a ladder of mental concepts to it.

It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul

Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.