It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
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.
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
History takes time. History makes memory.
There is no there there.
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.
The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.
Let me listen to me and not to them.
