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

there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

You are all a lost generation.