One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Governing is occupying but not interesting, governments are occupying but not interesting.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

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.

Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.