The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

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

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.

The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.