I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it, but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

It takes a heap of loafing to write a book.

The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

You are extraordinary within your limits, but your limits are extraordinary!

Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.