Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.