What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be untruthful enough, but their untruth lacks the infusion of candor which a skillful male liar can introduce.

The art of life is to show your hand.