Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.
A house in the country is not the same as a country house.
A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Action and reaction are equal and opposite.
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.
