Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

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.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

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.