every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.