All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members of the family. Nobody told you to….

The thing is not to follow a pattern. Follow your own pattern of feeling and thought. The thing is to accept your own life and not try to live someon….

I am in Paris. Yes ma'am , I made it back. I came up from Berlin, stopped here ten days, fought a losing battle against my deepest inclinations, pull….

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing..

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being..

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty..

The past is never where you think you left it..

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-yea….

advance money is really a delusion, that is to say, I get no more until it is paid out in sales, but still, living from hand to mouth and day to day ….

No man can be explained by his personal history, least of all a poet..

It's a man's world, and you men can have it..

I'm not afraid of life and I'm not afraid of death: Dying's the bore..

Life comes first, an art not rooted in human experience is not worth a damn, but different kinds of minds have different kinds of experience, and all….

Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and ….

Grant that the idea of God is the most splendid single act of the creative human imagination, and that all his multiple faces and attributes correspo….

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supp….

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that..

Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I h….

I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and….

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it..

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it..