... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

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.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.