A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Romance is everything.
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
When you get there there isn't any there there.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don't danceSo you might as welldance.
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...
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.
You have to learn to do everything even to die.
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
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 write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
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.
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
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.
Very likely education does not make very much difference.