The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.