America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

Near a war is always not very near.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.