The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.

The most beautiful fighting machine I have ever seen