What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it.

there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

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.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.