You know being born is important to you. You know nothing else was ever so important to you.

Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo. Shovel them under and let me work- I am the grass; I cover all. And pile them high at Gettysburg. And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun. Shovel them under and let me work. Two years, ten years,and passengers ask the conductor- What place is this? Where are we now? I am the grass. Let me work.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading "Keep Off.

A tough will counts. So does desire.So does a rich soft wanting.Without rich wanting nothing arrives.