I'll keep you here.' He taps his temple. 'Where you can't get lost.

Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Meliesfrom The Invention of Hugo Cabret

There was no experience, I thought, quite as wonderful as being an American in Paris.

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

If you have ever walked in Paris, you will see that Paris will ever walk in your memoires!

The veneer of civilization fell away to reveal desperate animals, humanity at their worst.

...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.

You will be my souvenir in American summer,when all I can think about are Parisian springs.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.