There isnt always an explanation for everything.

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

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

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.