The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

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.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

Don't be on the side of the angels, it's too lowering.

Europe's the mayonnaise, but America supplies the good old lobster.

God doesn't know things. He is things.

God is only a great imaginative experience.

Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

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 can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.

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 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 hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

I shall always be a priest of love.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.