Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight.

Live it up so you can write it down.

Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.

I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division.