Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

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

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.