I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.