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

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

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

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.