We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins they have never committed.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations.

There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.

The reason for the scaffolding on the tower of Saint Germain-des-Près is that a rich American has purchased it and is having it crated for shipping.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

... I have always fallen for ads. The sweetheart of J. Walter Thompson, I have a peasant-like belief in whatever miracle they profess to effect.

Tragedy can break the heart but not the dam of the tearducts while schmaltz can dissolve the most hardened sophisticate.

That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation.

Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

Cool down and think.

It’s frustration which makes creativity possible.

It is proper that technically qualified non-lunatics should sit in judgement on lunatics. How could things be otherwise?

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

Without faith, God's grace is wasted, & without grace, faith is powerless.

I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

Don’t be afraid.” “I hear voices,” Iggy said. “Be very afraid.

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!