Paris in the early morning has a cheerful, bustling aspect, a promise of delicious things to come, a positive smell of coffee and croissants, quite peculiar to itself. The people welcome a new day as if they were certain of liking it, the shopkeepers pull up their blinds serene in the expectation of good trade, the workers go happily to their work, the people who have sat up all night in night-clubs go happily to their rest, the orchestra of motor-car horns, of clanking trams, of whistling policemen tunes up for the daily symphony, and everywhere is joy.

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

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.

If I had a girl I should say to her, 'Marry for love if you can, it won't last, but it is a very interesting experience and makes a good beginning in life. Later on, when you marry for money, for heaven's sake let it be big money. There are no other possible reasons for marrying at all.

When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

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