Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.

Too few is as many as too many.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.