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

Very likely education does not make very much difference.

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.

... anybody is as their land and air is. Anybody is as the sky is low or high, the air heavy or clear and anybody is as there is wind or no wind there. It is that which makes them and the arts they make and the work they do and the way they eat and the way they drink and the way they learn and everything.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.