A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

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

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.

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.