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.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.