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.

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

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

The Jew lends himself easily to Communism because it enables him to devote himself to a high cause, involving all of humanity, characteristics which are natural to him as a Jew.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.