there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

I often think how celebrated I am. / It is difficult not to think how celebrated I am. / And if I think how celebrated I am / They know who know that I am new / That is I knew I know how celebrated I am / And after all it astonishes even me.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.

Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.