But I'm going to try to tell the truth. Except for the parts I'm leav­ing out, because there's still stuff I'm just not going to tell you. Get used to it.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

Sometimes it is better not to know. Sometimes when you do know you just fold up.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

My sheets had never been so clean as they had in the past few months. I hardly got them on again before something else happened and I was feverishly ripping them off and stuffing them in the wash with double amounts of soap and all the "extra" buttons pushed: extra wash, extra rinse, extra water, extra spin, extra protection against things that go bump in the night.

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag.