If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

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

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.