I
suppose the more you have to do, the more you learn to organise and
concentrate—or else get fragmented into bits. I have learned to use my
‘ten minutes.’ I once thought it was not worth sitting down for a time
as short as that; now I know differently and, if I have ten minutes, I
use them, even if they bring only two lines, and it keeps the book
alive. 
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That
alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized
and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
My mind works in idleness. To do nothing is often my most profitable way. 
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm
and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we
seek them with our eyes open.
