Owen

“The Australian aborigines, reckoned to be among the most primitive of races upon evidence that is far from conclusive, have a region that is well-developed. They worship the Earth Mother, and recognise in their graceful, plaintive stories the prior existence of culture heroes as well limned as any in Valhalla. To an amazing degree they feel the reality of the metaphysical world they have created––the dream-time, which is neither a dream nor a period, or if it is a period is one which has no dimension, so that the past and the present exist together.”
― Olaf Ruhen, Tangaroa's Godchild

“She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.”
― Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

“Our language has become a tired and inefficient thing in the hands of journalists and writers who have nothing to say.”
― Colin Wilson, The Occult

“I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.”
― Colin Wilson