"I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."
"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."