A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is not waking thoughts although it is written and thought with waking thoughts.

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.

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

You can either buy clothes or buy pictures.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

The difference between saints, forget-me-nots, and mountains, have to, have to, have to at a time.