August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

there is art and there is official art, there always has been and there always will be.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

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

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

When I sleep I sleep and do not dream because it is as well that I am what I seem when I am in my bed and dream.