Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

small talk comes from small bones

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

With Usura With usura hath no man a house of good stone each block cut smooth and well fitting.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.