Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!
God, living is enormous!
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.
Many things in the world have not been named; and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described.
All my life I've been looking for someone intelligent to talk to.
That sort of reception - where everything is assimilated to the world of celebrity - makes me dream of becoming a more recalcitrant, harder to assimilate writer.