Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.
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.
A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.
I am I because my little dog knows me.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
One must dare to be happy.
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
You look ridiculous if you dance. You look ridiculous if you don’t dance. So you might as well dance.
It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.
If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.
Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.
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.