Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.
Any time is the time to make a poem.
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
There is no there there.
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.
I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
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 always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
America is my country and Paris is my hometown.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
Money is always there but the pockets change.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.