It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.

It is a city of villages, closely connected, each village dedicated to a different way of life.

Only a fool would make the bed every day.

Everything begins in Paris.

I like a new clean book, freshly bound, particularly when I am the first to read it. I like dirty books - where other people have been before me, slipping fried eggs between the pages as markers - rather less.

There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.