Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

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.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.