When one has seen something of the world and human nature, one must conclude, after all, that between people in like stations of life there is very little difference the world over.

I'm lonely I'll make me a world.

In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die; and in the long years after, they can be called up in detail, and every emotion that was stirred by them can be lived through anew; these are the tragedies of life.

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.

And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.