The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

The great mistake about Europe is taking the countries seriously and letting them quarrel and drop bombs on one another.

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future or counting the cost, produced dreadful disabilities and bankruptcies later.

At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.