To know Paris is to know a great deal.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

To know Paris is to know a great deal.

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.