Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn't learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Hope is a talent like any other.

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.