I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

Having books published is very destructive to writing.

I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.