The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

The writer's job is not to judge, but to seek to understand.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.