But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you.

That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

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