Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

Excellence does not require perfection.

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Let your imagination takes you where you want to be.

I may be a princess, but I'm definitely not a drama queen.

The pack is very important for a dog. Once you give him the right pack and the right energy, you look at him.

There's only a few directors that can do what Emmerich does on an international scale and on an action scale.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

[Beauty is] that which makes us despair.

Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.

Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.