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.

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

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.