Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish delights that the egoist locked up in himself as in a box, and the slothful man like a mollusk in his shell, will be eternally deprived of. He adopts as his own all the occupations, all the joys and all the sorrows that chance offers.

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling . . . and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'.