There are some men whose only mission among others is to act as intermediaries; one crosses them like bridges and keeps going.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

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

We think of women at every age: while still children, we fondle with a naïve sensuality the breasts of those grown-up girls kissing us and cuddling us in their arms; at the age of ten, we dream of love; at fifteen, love comes along; at sixty, it is still with us, and if dead men in their tombs have any thought in their heads, it is how to make their way underground to the nearby grave, lift the shroud of the dear departed women, and mingle with her in her sleep

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.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal. I've never sought it (though I desire it) and seek it less and less.