I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

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

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

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?