In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.