Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.

There are not enough poems in praise of bed.

One cannot revoke a true happiness.

General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.

There is a period in one's life - perhaps not longer than six months - when one lives in two worlds at once ... It is the time when one has freshly learned to read. The Word, till then a denominating aspect of the Thing, has suddenly become detached from it and is perceived as a glittering entity, transparent and unseizable as a jellyfish, yet able to create an independent world that is both more recondite and more instantaneously convincing than the world one knew before.

no one wants to be praised for possibilities when one has submitted performances.