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

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it’s never done.