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

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.