I hate the way the English have of not being serious about being serious, I really hate it.

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Life isn't just addition and subtraction. There's also the accumulation, the multiplication, of loss, of failure.

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would be.

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art.