The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writersomething old-adamish, incompatible to the "ordinary world.

Evil, what is evil? There is only one evil, to deny life As Rome denied Etruria And mechanical America Montezuma still