I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.