If I were to choose one single thing that that would restore Paris to the senses, it would be that strangely sweet, unhealthy smell of the Métro, so very unlike the dank cold or the stuffy heat of subways in New York.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live.

It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out the real person, but if I can't, then I am upset and cross. Time wasted is poison.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

all great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.