Experience is never at bargain price.
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.
Illness sets the mind free sometimes to roam and surmise.
But I don't want nutrition. I want food!
I have just learned a delicious French usage. On wedding invitations when they say the mass is at noon they mean one o'clock -when they say at noon precise they mean half after twelve - and when they say at very precisely noon they mean noon.