You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Never confuse motions with action.

I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea