A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

small talk comes from small bones

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.