Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !

A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.

I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.

I Love children, especially when they cry for then someone takes them away.