More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

You have to know what you want to get it.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.