Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

Paris is certainly one of the most boastful of cities, and you could argue that it has had a lot to boast about: at various times the European centre of power, of civilisation, of the arts, and (self-advertisingly, at least) of love.

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your excitement about the world transferred itself onto everything you saw and made it brighter?

We live, we die, we are remembered, we are forgotten.

The more you learn, the less you fear.