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.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

Artists are the antennae of the race.

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.