The true poet for me is a priest. As soon as he dons the cassock, he must leave his family.

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.

She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.

Talent is nothing but long patience.

Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.

I invite all brats to throw their cookies at the baker's head if they're not sweet, winos to chuck their wine if it's bad, the dying to shuck their souls when they croak, and men to throw their existence in God's face when it's bitter

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.