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.

Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible.

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

You'll always have to deal with bastards, being lied to, deceived, slandered and ridiculed, but that's to be expected and you must thank heaven when you meet the exception.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

On spinach: I dislike it, and am happy to dislike it because if I liked it I would eat it, and I cannot stand it.