 The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting. |
| The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing. |
| We are always the same age inside. |
| Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen. |
| I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. |
| The thing that differentiates man from animals is money. |
| Hemingway's remarks are not literature. |
| A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears. |
| It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them. |
| Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. |
| 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. |
| Very likely education does not make very much difference. |
| Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. |
| 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. |
| Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. |
| War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost. |
| It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock. |
| The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not. |
| Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone. |
| It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important. |
