Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.