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

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.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!

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