Never sit a table when you can stand at the bar.

you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.

Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France.

I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.