In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

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

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.