A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Presentation, not reference.

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

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