I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

Some men and women are inquisitive about everything, they are always asking, if they see any one with anything they ask what is that thing, what is it you are carrying, what are you going to be doing with that thing, why have you that thing, where did you get that thing, how long will you have that thing, there are very many men and women who want to know about anything about everything.