It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

... 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.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

Since it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

I am I because my little dog knows me but, creatively speaking the little dog knowing that you are you and your recognising that he knows, that is what destroys creation. That is what makes school.