I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.