“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.”

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.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

I was built this way for a reason, so I’m going to use it.

No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.

I think it’s way harder when you have success, ’cause people tend to not treat you the same or look at you the same because they see the success or the money you make.

I think everyone is beautiful in their own way.

The way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.

I’ve had happy moments in my life, but I don’t think that happiness– being happy– is a perpetual state that anyone can be in. Life isn’t that way.

The way of learning is none other than finding the lost mind.

Wisdom leads us back to childhood.