Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

A thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.

Paintings invariably sum up; photographs usually do not. Photographic images are pieces of evidence in an ongoing biography or history. And one photograph, unlike one painting, implies that there will be others.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.