Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. And no visit is more essential.

I know all one can know when one knows nothing.

Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.