Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

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.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.