“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”

“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.”

“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”

“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.”

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”

“If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?”

“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”

“I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.”

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

“It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.”