Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man..

In this world men struggle and suffer vainly, finding pleasure only in the bright madness of battle; dying, their souls enter a gray misty realm of c….

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom..

I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me kno….

Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultatio….

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat..

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not f….

The only safe enemy was a headless enemy..

If I was wealthy I'd never do anything but poke around in ruined cities all over the world - and probably get snake-bit..

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of pro….

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments..

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing..

I think the real reason so many youngsters are clamoring for freedom of some vague sort, is because of unrest and dissatisfaction with present condit….

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men ….

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts..

Man can be that which he wishes to be; form and substance, they are but shadows. The mind, the ego, the essence of the god-dream -- that is real, tha….

I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, & am content..

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words..

The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the ….

Man is better without knowledge of things to come, for what is to be will be, and man can neither avert nor hasten. It is better to go in the dark wh….