Satire exists for the purpose of killing the social being [for the sake of] the true individual, the real human being.

A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall naturally into a collective wholeness, since they cannot have an individual wholeness. In this collective wholeness they will be fulfilled. But if they make efforts at individual fulfilment, they must fail for they are by nature fragmentary.

The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board