“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”

“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. ”

“Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something. ”

“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.”

“twenty-five years run around so quickly but thirty one years is a long time.”

“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”