Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, M...
It is difficult to restrain admirers of Shakespeare once they have begun to speak of him.
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the ai...
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
To die for the one you loved was an effort too sweet for words.
I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story I will write. Then come the characters, and they take over, they make the story.
No, he said after a pause, the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be ce...
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.