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.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.

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