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.

Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.

One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.