Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

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.

Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.

art is the pulse of a nation.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.