At night, time becomes a calm sea. It goes on for ever.
It amused me to think that one can tell the truth when one is drunk and nobody will believe it.
One partner is always more in love than the other.
Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.
After Proust, there are certain things that simply cannot be done again. He marks off for you the boundaries of your talent.
It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality.