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 extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

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

It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

History takes time. History makes memory.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.