The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial. - Gertrude Stein

The head-lines which do not head anything they simply replace something but they do not make anything.

A saint a real saint never does anything, a martyr does something but a really good saint does nothing, and so I wanted to have Four Saints who did nothing and I wrote the Four Saints In Three Acts and they did nothing and that was everything. Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing something.

The two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.