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.

In love' is for the romantic. 'Love' for the realist.

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

Everything begins in Paris.

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

Whenever I have tried to do anything For Money it has always led me astray.

I only really love a book when I have read it at least four times.