The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand.
The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Art isn’t everything. It’s just about everything.
The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.
If anything is a surprise then there is not much difference between older and younger because the only thing that does make anybody older is that they cannot be surprised.
All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
I have heard Will Honeycomb say, A Woman seldom Writes her Mind but in her Postscript.
I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.
And identity is funny being yourself is funny as you are never yourself to yourself except as you remember yourself and then of course you do not believe yourself.
War is more like a novel than it is like real life and that is its eternal fascination. It is a thing based on reality but invented, it is a dream made real, all the things that make a novel but not really life.
When in a museum, walk slowly but keep walking.
To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.
The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.
Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.