Women have invented nothing in all that, except the men who were born as male babies and grew up to be men big enough to be killed fighting..

I'm fond of anything that comes from the sea, and that includes sailors..

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it..

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums..

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully..

[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the cold, and finally unhy….

Genius is a talent only for living, those who possess it have little gift for dying..

She died with a knife in her hand in her kitchen, where she had cooked for fifty years, and the death was solemnly listed in the newspaper as that of….

When I hear a writer say that they ‘put in a call,’ I want to pull my hair out..

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks..

I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourge….

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, ….

The German passion for bureaucracy -- for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist -- is like a steel pin pinning each French ….

... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something..

Proust has been dead since 1922, yet the annual appearance of his posthumous works has left him, to the reader, alive. Now there is nothing left to p….

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time..

[Charles de Gaulle] has been abysmally careless, like a man running a bus over mountains, who forgot to equip it with good brakes..

The stench of human wreckage in which the Nazi regime finally sank down to defeat has been the most shocking fact of modern times..

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an….

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales..

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented . .….