The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

I spent the morning putting in a comma and the afternoon removing it.

Coffee: Induces wit. Good only if it comes through Havre. After a big dinner party it is taken standing up. Take it without sugar - very swank: gives the impression you have lived in the East.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

All you have to do to make something interesting is to look at it long enough.

As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from one end of the keyboard to the other without a stop.