Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

Numbers are intellectual witnesses that belong only to mankind.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.