What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

You have to know what you want to get it.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet