I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

It is very difficult in quarreling to be certain in either one what the other one is remembering. It is very often astonishing to each one quarreling to find out what the other one was remembering for quarreling. Mostly in quarreling not any one is finding out what the other one is remembering for quarreling, what the other one is remembering from quarreling.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

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.