My mind may be American but my heart is British.

O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

Cats must have three names-an everyday name, such as Peter; a more particular, dignified name, such as Quaxo, Bombalurina, or Jellylorum; and, thirdly, the name the cat thinks up for himself, his deep and inscrutable singular Name.

And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.