Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

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

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Eating and sleeping are not like loving and breathing. Washing is not like eating and sleeping. Believing is like breathing and loving. Religion can be believing, it can be like breathing, it can be like loving, it can be like eating or sleeping, it can be like washing, it can be something to fill up a place when someone has lost out of them a piece that it was not natural for them to have in them.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.