Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.