No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

I had a family. They can be a nuisance in identity but there is no doubt no shadow of doubt that that identity the family identity we can do without.

This is the place of places and and it is here.