"I lay there in the river for a minute and gave up. When you do that something dies inside."

"Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less fe…"

"Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void."

"Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded."

"Christ Jesus, when I come to die Grant me a clean, sweet, summer sky, Without the mad wind's panther cry. Send me a l…"

"Mornings, the flower-women hawk their wares— Bronze caryatids of a genial race, Bearing the bloom-heaped baskets on t…"

"Between the villages of Aubière and Romagnat in the ancient Province of Auvergne there is an old road that comes sudd…"

"Religions change; beer and wine remain."

"Grow up as soon as you can. It pays. The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty, provided of course …"

"What is even a wise book but a blast from the lungs made visible to the eyes?"