there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

It is very easy to love alone.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

. . . money . . . is really the difference between men and animals, most of the things men feel, animals feel, and vice versa, but animals do not know about money.

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.