It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

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

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.

It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

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.

art is the pulse of a nation.