If he's getting married, he's not longer interesting.

I am going away with him to an unknown country where I shall have no past and no name, and where I shall be born again with a new face and an untried heart.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.