I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.

You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.

But I do say that educated and scholarly men, if they’re brilliant and creative to begin with—which, unfortunately, is rarely the case—tend to leave infinitely more valuable records behind them than men do who are merely brilliant and creative. They tend to express themselves more clearly, and they usually have a passion for following their thoughts through to the end.

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane.

After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.