I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.