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.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

There is no beginning to an end / But there is a beginning and an end / To beginning.

Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.

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.

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

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.