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.

The way to resume is to resume. It is the only way. To resume.

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

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

Remarks are not literature.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.