Time is the least thing we have.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.