... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

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.

Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

Dogs are dogs, you sometimes think that they are not but they are. And they always are here there and everywhere.

I am I because my little dog knows me.