“You are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.”

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

You have to know what you want to get it.

You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

A sentence is not emotional a paragraph is.

I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.

A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia’s most exciting new novelists.

We don’t have to be brilliant.

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

I have some ideas on how to fix that.

It’s by a brilliant reporter named David Holthouse.

All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.