I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

The trouble with emergencies is," she said, "that I always put on my finest underwear and then nothing happens.

I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I wish our gravest concerns were the summer gnats. I wish we were hungry for hot dogs and dopes, and it would be nice to smell the starch of summer linens and the faint odor of talc in blistering summer bath houses ... We could lie in long citoneuse beams of the five o'clock sun on the plage at Juan-les-Pins and hear the sound of the drum and piano being scooped out to sea by the waves.

They hadn't much faith in travel, nor a great belief in a change of scene as a panacea for spiritual ills; they were simply glad to be going.

It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.