Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.

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 cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.