I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

Home is where one starts from.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.

Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future.