I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

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.