Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

For what are we born if not to aid one another?

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

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.

A cat has absolute honesty.