... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.

It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.

Life, to be happy at all, must be in its way a sacrament, and it is a failure in religion to divorce it from the holy acts of everyday, of ordinary human existence.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

The artist's business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.