each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.

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.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.