Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

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.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.