Worship is transcendent wonder.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

He who carves the Buddha never worships him.

To worship rightly is to love each other, each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

Those who, murmuring against it, do not follow my doctrine, deluded in all knowledge, you must know they are lost, the fools.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a daydreamer-to be living a kind of double life.

I write nothing in this life because I do not want to spend today remembering whatever good I did yesterday.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.