Never have nights been more beautiful than these nights of anxiety. In the sky have been shining in trinity the moon, Venus and Mars. Nature has been more splendid than man.

Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times.

When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out.

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying.

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes.