I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.

Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

... when there is a war the years are longer that is to say the days are longer the months are longer the years are much longer but the weeks are shorter that is what makes a war.