I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

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

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

Everywhere there was somewhere and everywhere there they were men women children dogs cows wild pigs little rabbits cats lizards and animals. That is the way it was. And everybody dogs cats sheep rabbits and lizards and children all wanted to tell ... all about themselves.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.