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

Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

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

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.