Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

America is a lunatic asylum.

Every great change is simple.

Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

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