“In Paris, our lives are one masked ball.”

“Living in Paris is "priceless," but it will cost you. It ain't cheap, yet it is one of the greatest bargains on earth. In our day and age, there are only two ways to get free of money worries: either accumulate wealth, lots of it, or move to Paris.”

“Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s.”

“Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it's still living in Paris in the thirties.”

“In our society most of us wear protective masks (psychological ones) of various kinds, and for various reasons. Very often, the end result is that the mask grows to us, displacing our original characters with our assumed characters.”

“Voyagers can remove the masks and those sinuous, intricate disguises we wear at home in the dangerous equilibrium of our common lives.”