Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!

...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly, to give it all up and not know anything more — this idea was as sweet as the vision of a cool bath in a marble tank, in a darkened chamber, in a hot land.