"Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so."

"Remarks are not literature."

"Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it."

"I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed."

"The thing that differentiates man from animals is money."

"There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more."

"If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer."

"Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting."

"We are always the same age inside."

"Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."

"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

"Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal."

"I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go."

"What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage."

"Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."

"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."

"A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself."

"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."

"America is my country and Paris is my hometown."

"Hemingway's remarks are not literature."

"An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work."

"Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation."

"Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded."

"When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that."

"It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself."

"Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything."

"But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'"

"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."

"A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull."

"It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true."

"It is very easy to love alone."

"The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting."

"One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure."

"Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died."

"In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody."

"Romance is everything."

"Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls."

"Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population."