Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.