It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

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

There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.