I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

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.