In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where t...
What is the answer?
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
Nothing has happened today except kindness.
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and...
I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.
It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people...