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.

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Forensics is eloquence and reduction.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.