In Latin America, the pace is slower, it is more technical. In Europe, it is faster, but I haven't had any problems adapting to it

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries

What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages

Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression

I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train

One of the strongest prejudices that one has to overcome when one visits Australia is that created by the weird jargon than passes for English in this country

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abscess

California is a tragic country - like Palestine, like every Promised Land