I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
I shall always be a priest of love.
Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.
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.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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.
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.
I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves.
I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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.
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.