The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.