It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

For beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.