I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

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 rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

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

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