[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
Gertrude SteinThere is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.
Gertrude SteinSuperstition is believing that something means anything and that anything means something and that each thing means a particular thing and will mean a particular thing is coming. Oh yes it does.
Gertrude Steinthere are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.
Gertrude Stein