"Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know"
"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population"
"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything"
"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation"
"Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood"
"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"
"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded"
"Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it"
"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work"
"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself"
"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"
"Remarks are not literature"
"It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night"
"To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write"
"Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal"
"What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country"
"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go"
"I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not"
"There is no there there"
"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself"
"It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock"
"If you can do it then why do it?"
"It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death"
"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage"
"That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back"
"It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important"
"I think the reason I am important is that I know everything"
"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself"
"A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull"
"A house in the country is not the same as a country house"
