Alfred KazinThinkers

The City is a place representing the complete triumph of numbers, where the technical collaboration between men persists in the midst of the greatest loneliness and destructiveness.

The City is marked by a destructive loneliness as a meticulous unending confrontation persists between man and other men, between man and his things, even between things and their things.

A Classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

Gertrude Stein is an immense priestess of nonsense who expounds her text in nonsense syllables.

The Understandable is overrated. Talking about things that are understandable only weighs down the mind.