A bottle of wine was good company.
Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.
Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.