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

you are brilliant and subtle if you come from Iowa and really strange and you live as you live and you are always very well taken care of if you come from Iowa.

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.