The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

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.

Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.