I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

You'll lose it, if you talk about it

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

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