Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.