Well money is not easy to describe. It is easy to lose but it cannot be lost, and no one can get really get used to it.

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a philosophy and a psychology and all these various other things he is not really worthy of being called a writer. I agree with Kant and Schopenhauer and Plato and Spinoza and that is quite enough to be called a philosophy. But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.