There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

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

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Why should a sequence of words be anything but a pleasure?