My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

Soon someone would say the fatal words, "Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.