You come to the United States not knowing what to expect. Then all your worst prejudices are confirmed.

You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good.

Evolution did not intend trees to grow singly. Far more than ourselves they are social creatures, and no more natural as isolated specimens than man is as a marooned sailor or hermit.

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

There are two kinds of hangover: in one you feel ill and incapable, in the other you feel ill and lucid.