 Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking. |
| A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull. |
| In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is. |
| It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son. |
| Remarks are not literature. |
| There is no there there. |
| Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question. |
| This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. |
| I think the reason I am important is that I know everything. |
| The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it. |
| 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. |
| If you can do it then why do it? |
| Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood. |
| It is very easy to love alone. |
| I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. |
| Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. |
| I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. |
| What is the answer? In that case, what is the question? |
| It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. |
| Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. |
