A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is i...
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there i...
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my own life and were making my destiny a part of theirs. To shake myself free of...
The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
Every day the choice is presented to us, in a thousand different ways, to live up to the spirit which is in us or to deny it. Whenever we talk about right and wrong we are turning the light of scrutin...
The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
The continent is full of buried violence, of the bones of antediluvian monsters and of lost races of man, of mysteries which are wrapped in doom. The atmosphere is at times so electrical that the soul...
Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.
I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.
1) Work on one thing at a time until finished.2) Start no more new books, add no more new material to Black Spring.3) Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.4) Work...