Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

Gettysburg. . . . You cant understand it. You would have to be born there.

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...