Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

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

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.

Poetry is essentially the discovery, the love, the passion for the name of everything.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.