Money is always there but the pockets change.

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

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.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.

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

One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and they do not plan. It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for a future, none at all.

I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.