The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged, and rather sardonic, lion, in a particularly contemptible and ill-run zoo.

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

If you do not regard feminism with an uplifting sense of the gloriousness of woman's industrial destiny, or in the way, in short, that it is prescribed, by the rules of the political publicist, that you should, that will be interpreted by your opponents as an attack on woman.

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

Spain is an overflow of sombreness . . . a strong and threatening tide of history meets you at the frontier.