The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.

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

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

If you are a thinker, you will change the language. You will not use words the way others do.

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.

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.