Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
Sanity means the wholeness of the consciousness. And our society is only part conscious, like an idiot.
Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it’s like having a good sneeze.
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel as a tremulation can make the whole man alive tremble.
One’s action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not to be a mere rushing on.
You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.
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.
You live by what you thrill to, and there’s the end of it.
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.
Never trust the teller, trust the tale.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.