it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.

You are all a lost generation.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.