The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

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

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

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

See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.