"I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
"If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
"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."
"If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places."
"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."