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

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

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is used by twenty-five people in twenty-five different ways. That seems to me to be the first fight, if there is going to be any intellect left.

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

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.