“And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises.”

“Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.”

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

“Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.”

“You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil.”

“To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you. You could take your treasure with you when you traveled too, and in the mountains where we lived in Switzerland and Italy, until we found Schruns in the high valley in the Vorarlberg in Austria, there were always the books, so that you lived in the new world you had found, the snow and the forests and the glaciers and their winter problems and your high shelter in the Hotel Taube in the village in the day time, and at night you could live in the other wonderful world the Russian writers were giving you.”

“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.”