Modern life ... is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

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.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.