Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

But did thee feel the earth move?

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

The further you go in writing the more alone you are.