The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

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

I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving

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.

The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.