What's the use of being a little boy if you are going to grow up to be a man?

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables

A beauty is not suddenly in a circle. It comes with rapture. A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

Remarks are not literature.

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 gives you time, but not actual hours or minutes, but a chance to be, like be yourself, and have a second cup.

The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose,

I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made.

Hemingway's remarks are not literature.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.