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

There is something in this native land business and you cannot get away from it, in peace time you do not seem to notice it much particularly when you live in foreign parts but when there is a war and you are all alone and completely cut off from knowing about your country well then there it is, your native land is your native land, it certainly is.

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.

Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.