Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye.

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements, of moving kernels, expanding flesh.

A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people.

These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting strengths.

To be bound by hungers is a beautiful thing but to be bound by physical hungers only is too low a state for man.

The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other.