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.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

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.

I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

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,

It is very easy to love alone.

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.

She told her father Mr. Abram Colhard that she did not like it at all being one being living then. He never said anything. She was afraid then, she was one needing charming stories and happy telling of them and not having that thing she was always trembling.

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)

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

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.

The painter does not conceive himself as existing in himself, he conceives himself as a reflection of the objects he has put into his pictures and he lives in the reflections of his pictures, a writer, a serious writer, conceives himself as existing by and in himself, he does not at all live in the reflection of his books, to write he must first of all exist in himself, but for a painter to be able to paint, the painting must first of all be done.

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.

We are always the same age inside.

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.

When you get there there isn't any there there.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

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.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

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.

A rose is a rose is a rose.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

We are always the same age inside.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

I am because my little dog knows me.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

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.