The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Every time I must find something to do that will look like something a little beyond my capabilities.

If a lover is wretched who invokes kisses of which he knows not the flavor, a thousand times more wretched is he who has had a taste of the flavor and then had it denied him.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

For the man who thought he was Man there is no salvation.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.