Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.
I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life.
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
God is only a great imaginative experience.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
Only in a novel are all things given full play.
Nothing that comes from the deep, passional soul is bad, or can be bad.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
God doesn't know things. He is things.
When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.