no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.

... Rembrandt is not a painter at all. He is a creator, who creates his beings, three dimensional living beings, on a two-dimensional flat surface which acts as a mute, and enforces silence on them.

When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.

I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.

Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.

My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.