You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

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

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

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

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.