The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

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

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.

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.