“We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.”

“Behind a remarkable scholar we not infrequently find an average human being, and behind an average artist we often find a very remarkable human being.”

“Malraux writes in a language in which there is no way to say "perhaps" or "I don't know," so that after a while we grow accustomed to saying it for him.”

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.”

“We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that.”

“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”

“It is always of interest to know what strikes another human being as remarkable.”

“Human beings cannot grow without feeling gratitude. Gratitude towards things is an attitude which fosters growth.”

“We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out.”

“The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.”