Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson's perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. ... Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that Congress shall have power to coin money or regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Such appeal is perhaps quixotic.

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

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.