small talk comes from small bones

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

The artist is the antenna of the race.

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

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.