When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.