A masterpiece…may be unwelcome but it is never dull.
A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.
I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand.
I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding….
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.
I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.
I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.
I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
Remarks are not literature.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.
There is no such animal [as collectivism], it is always individualism….
War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.
When [human beings] are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone.
When you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.