One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.

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

Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.

... I want to be one of those people who are always to be found at home, nice restful people whom everybody likes because they give a feeling of permanence to this rushing world.

The unexpectedness of life, waiting round every corner, catches even wise women unawares (...) To avoid corners altogether is, after all, to refuse to live.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!