If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.