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

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.

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.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

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

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

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.

We are always the same age inside.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

The artist works by locating the world in himself.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.