An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

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

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

Remarks are not literature.

You have to know what you want to get it.