Don't do what you sincerely don't want to do. Never confuse movement with action.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America.

It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.