The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.