Any time is the time to make a poem.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

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.

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.