There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.