“How do you like what you have. This is a question that anybody can ask anybody. Ask it.”

Romance is everything.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

You attract what you need like a lover.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

How I wish I were able to say what I think.

I just tell you and though I dont sound like it I’ve got plenty of sense, there aint any answer, there aint going to be any answer, there never has been any answer, that’s the answer.

It’s not that I succeed, it’s that everyone else has to fail, horribly, preferably in front of their parents.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

When I was young I thought of friendship as a matter of total loyalty and unchanging preference and I was often disappointed.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.