Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

What is moral is what you feel good after.

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

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.