It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.

I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.

Repeating is the whole of living and by repeating comes understanding, and understanding is to some the most important part of living.

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

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.

If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.