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

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

Coffee is real good when you drink it gives you time to think. It's a lot more than just a drink; it's something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.