It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

As in no other form of lute or combat, the conditions are such; the winner takes nothing, neither his ease, nor his pleasure, nor any notion of glory, nor if he wins far enough, will he find anything within himself.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.