Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

You never answer a question nobody does.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

Writer or painter god-parents are notoriously unreliable. That is, there is certain before long to be a cooling of friendship.

This joy you feel is life.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.