I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

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

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

Wars are made to make debt.

Any damn fool can be spontaneous.