There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

To know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody likes to be frightened what they really have to have is soothing.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.