The French use cooking as a means of self-expression, and this meal perfectly represented the personality of a cook who had spent the morning resting her unwashed chin on the edge of a tureen, pondering whether she should end her life immediately by plunging her head into her abominable soup.

It seemed a good idea at the time.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

The day was so delightful that I wished one could live slowly as one can play music slowly.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.