I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as they had lived, with style and grace and their proper eccentricity; and Paris loves anybody who can live anarchically and be delightful entertainment at the same time. So do I.

Defeat in this world is no disgrace and that is what they cannot understand. If you really fought well and fought for the right thing.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.