Don't write about what you don't know even if you don't know it.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

Remarks are not literature.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.