There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.
Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.