Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

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

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.

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.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet