Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

Work could cure almost anything

Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.

People fall in love, but have to climb out.

Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good.

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.