"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…"

"Every new generation...is a fresh invasion of savages."

"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 …"