It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
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.
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.
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.
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.
The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth and there are men only upon this earth and anything can put an end to anything and any dog does anything like anybody does it what is the difference between eternity and anything.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
Romance is everything.