In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

I'm not in sympathy with Communism except for populations which are in a state of peasantry, actually hungry and starving. The ideal state for me is some form of Socialism, which doesn't yet exist, as far as I know, which doesn't repress the arts, or any race. Consequently I'm not a political person ... except that I'm a revolutionary.

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.