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.
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...
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 rose is a rose is a rose.
Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
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...
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not."(on Ezra Pound)
When I go around and speak on campuses,
Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but n...
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
There ain't no answer.There ain't gonna be any answer.
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
I am because my little dog knows me.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.