It is very easy to love alone.

Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.

Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

No one is ahead of his time, it is only that the particular variety of creating his time is the one that his contemporaries who are also creating their own time refuse to accept. For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.

She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.

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