No one ever stopped when they were winning.

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

There are only two places in the world where we can live happy: at home and in Paris.

And this was the price you paid for sleeping together.

In order to write about life first you must live it.

No good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in. ... I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks. But if I made them good and true enough they would mean many things

And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered.