The composition is the thing seen by everyone living in the living they are doing, they are the composing of the composition that at the time they are living is the composition of the time in which they are living.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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.

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

... there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.