Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.

Writing and reading is to me synonymous with existing.

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

it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

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