Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.
If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.
There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious, and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his normal experiences and out of the mixture he makes a work of art.
I hated the idleness, the stupidity, the respectability, the petty unselfishness.
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.