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.

Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

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 have been the creative literary mind of the century.

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.