People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

Suspicion of happiness is in our blood.

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

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.

Every cat is really the most beautiful woman in the room.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.