The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.
[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.
Forensics is eloquence and reduction.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.