There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.

The moment of cocoa-drinking was always the moment of confidences.

We travel because we do not know. We know that we do not know the best before we start. That is why we start. But we forget that we do not know the worst either. That is why we come back.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.