Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.