There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

If the communication is perfect, the words have life, and that is all there is to good writing, putting down on the paper words which dance and weep and make love and fight and kiss and perform miracles.

I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

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