"What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question?" - Gertrude Stein

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.

A virgin a whole virgin is judged made and so between curves and outlines and real seasons and more out glasses and a perfectly unprecedented arrangement between old ladies and mild colds there is no satin wood shining.

When you are writing before there is an audience anything written is as important as any other thing and you cherish anything and everything that you have written. After the audience begins, naturally they create something that is they create you, and so not everything is so important, something is more important than another thing.