Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking

I could meet dreadful people and end up seeing the world through their eyes, seeing their frailties, their needs.

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.

I will say I am the sum of my books.

The melancholy thing about the world is that it is full of stupid people; and the world is run for the benefit of the stupid and common.

You can't deny what you've learned; you can't deny your travels; you can't deny the nature of your life.