When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.