What We Need Now Is Endless Courage.

It Is As Hard To Find A Neutral Critic As It Is A Neutral Country In Time Of War. I Suppose If A Critic Were Neutral, He Wouldn't Trouble To Write Anything.

I Don't Believe In Intuition. When You Get Sudden Flashes Of Perception, It Is Just The Brain Working Faster Than Usual. But You've Been Getting Ready To Know It For A Long Time, And When It Comes, You Feel You've Known It Always.

[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.

I Have Not Much Interest In Anyone's Personal History After The Tenth Year, Not Even My Own. Whatever One Was Going To Be Was All Prepared Before That.

I Want To Live In A World Capital Or The Howling Wilderness.