You Cannot Fix What You Will Not

You Think Your Pain And Your Heartbreak Are Unprecedented In The History Of The World, But Then You Read.

People Who Shut Their Eyes To Reality Simply Invite Their Own Destruction.

It Is A Very Grave Matter To Be Forced To Imitate A People For Whom You Know-which Is The Price Of Your Performance And Survival-you Do Not Exist. It Is Hard To Imitate A People Whose Existence Appears, Mainly, To Be Made Tolerable By Their Bottomless Gratitude That They Are Not, Thank Heaven, You.

It Is Perfectly Possible To Be Enamoured Of Paris While Remaining Totally Indifferent Or Even Hostile To The French.

When You're Writing You're Trying To Find Out Something Which You Don't Know.