America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.