The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting — Gertrude Stein

After all, human beings are like that. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

Propaganda is not French, it is not civilized to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.