“America is my country, and Paris is my home town.”

“I have lived half of my life in Paris, not the half the made me but the half in which I made what I made.”

“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”

“The more you see how the country is the more you do not wonder why they shut the door. The women do in a way and yet if they did not it would be best.”

“I am I because my little dog knows me.”

“Think of anything, of cowboys, of movies, of detective stories, of anybody who goes anywhere or stays at home and is an American and you will realize that it is something strictly American to conceive a space that is filled with moving.”

“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.”