Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

... 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.

It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.

A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.