You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

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.

It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.