I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

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

A story demanded to be written, and that is why I have not answered your letter before: a wrong-headed story, that would come blundering like a moth on my window, and stare in with small red eyes, and I the last writer in the world to manage such a subject. One should have more self-control. One should be able to say, Go away. You have come to the wrong inkstand, there is nothing for you here. But I am so weakminded that I cannot even say, Come next week.

Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.

I wish I could be a grandmother. It is wanton extravagance to have had a youth with no one to tell of it to when one grows old.

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