The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.