If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

A diary means yes indeed.

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

It is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.