An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.
What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.
August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.
The thing that is most interesting about government servants is that they believe what they are supposed to believe, they really do believe what they are supposed to believe.
I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.
Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.
I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.
Adventure is making the distant approach nearer but romance is having what is where it is which is not where you are stay where it is.
Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.
Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.
French people do like good fighting, they like it better than anything.
College professors have two bad traits. They are logical and they are easily flattered.
I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.
The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.
But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.
Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.
We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don’t know that men can do what women can do. That’s absolutely crucial. We can’t go on doing two jobs.
The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.