Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

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

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

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

The artist works by locating the world in himself