Nothing has happened today except kindness.

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.