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.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

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

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.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.