On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

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.

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

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.