"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."
"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."
"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
"People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."
"I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?"
"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."