It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

Love: the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.