Life Comes First, An Art Not Rooted

I Specialize In What The French Call La Petite Histoire. I Am Interested In The Individual Thumbprint.

Education Must Be Taken Out Of The Hands Of Rich Illiterates, Third Rate Politicians, And Put Where It Belongs: In The Care Of Scholars. At Present The Whole University System Is Rotten To The Core, And An Appalling Waste Of Time, Energy And Money.

There Has Been A Marvelous Joyous Carnival Of Mourning For Edith Piaf And Jean Coctaeau, And It Was Real! They Died As They Had Lived, With Style And Grace And Their Proper Eccentricity; And Paris Loves Anybody Who Can Live Anarchically And Be Delightful Entertainment At The Same Time. So Do I.

[on Gertrude Stein's Making Of Americans:] I Doubt If All The People Who Should Read It Will Read It For A Great While Yet, For It Is In Such A Limited Edition, And Reading It Is Anyhow A Sort Of Permanent Occupation.

You Do Not Create A Style. You Work, And Develop Yourself; Your Style Is An Emanation From Your Own Being.