Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

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

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.

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

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

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

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.