How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.

I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.