It is very easy to love alone.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

A village explainer. Excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.”(on Ezra Pound)

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,...

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

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...

We are always the same age inside.

You look ridiculous if you danceYou look ridiculous if you don’t danceSo you might as welldance.

It is an extraordinary thing but it is true, wars are only a means of publicising the things already accomplished.

Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries aleays follows the line of the landscape . . . but Spanish architecture always cuts...

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

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.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

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...

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...

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.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

Coffee is a lot more than just a drink; it’s something happening. Not as in hip, but like an event, a place to be, but not like a location, but like somewhere within yourself. It...

I certainly do care for you Jeff Campbell less than you are always thinking and much more than you are ever knowing