So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)

No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.

It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.