He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong passion for the subject.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

I can't change something that I've been all my life. But I can work to express myself and talk more.

I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

I found it instructive and highly constructive as a writer to go to a point of disaster and come out with a feel for it and then some sort of a lesson based on feeling.

If no one hates it no one really loves it

But then it passed, as all things do.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose.