To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.

Only that which makes you feel bad after doing is immoral.

I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools.

I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe.