you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

If you can do it then why do it?

Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.

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