Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.

I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a fog and the clear wind blows it away and the sun burns it off.

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

I felt very lonely when they were all there.