There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

Everything begins in Paris.

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.

I have never been able to wear a hat. My hair is peculiar in that it grows so fast that any hat I put on instantly leaps from my head.