One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.

We can't tell our life from our wish

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.