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

Wars are made to make debt.

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

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!