I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.