Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.