I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

Better to separate than never to marry.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.