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.

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.

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.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.