You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don’t danceSo you might as welldance.
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing
A FEATHER.A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It is the human habit to think in centuries from a grandparent to a grandchild because it just does take about a hundred years for things to cease to have the same meaning as they did before,
Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”(on Ezra Pound)
At any moment when you are you, you are you without the memory of yourself because if you remember yourself while you are you, you are not for the purposes of creating you.
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.
If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
The central theme of the novel is that they were glad to see each other.
One must either accept some theory or else believe one’s own instinct or follow the world’s opinion.
She always says she dislikes the abnormal it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.
Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
I understand you undertake to overthrow my undertaking.
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.
Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
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?’
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.