There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

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.

If you can do it then why do it?

You have to learn to do everything, even to die.

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.