A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.