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 no there there.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

A conversation in English in Finnish and in French can not be held at the same time nor with indifference ever or after a time.