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.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

It is very easy to love alone.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

This joy you feel is life.