There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.