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

There is no there there.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.