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

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.