Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.