A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
Even pain pricks to livelier living.
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
I know that a creed is the shell of a lie.
Can you see through the night, woman, that you stare so upon it? Man, what sparks do your eyes follow in the smouldering darkness?
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out of profusion, Afraid of no incongruities, Sublime in its audacity, Bizarre breaker of moulds.