There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.