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.

You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.