Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

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

I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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.