You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

Nothing makes people crosser than being considered too old for love.

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a positive source of joy to live here, and there is nobody so miserable as a Parisian in exile from his town.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.