The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.