The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who o...wns a beret.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carp...ets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an... urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Paradoxically, the freedom of Paris is associated with a persistent belief that nothing ever changes. Paris, they say, is the city... that changes least. After an absence of twenty or thirty years, one still recognizes it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nowhere is one more alone than in Paris ... and yet surrounded by crowds. Nowhere is one more likely to incur greater ridicule. An...d no visit is more essential.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, f...or Paris is a moveable feast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not think it altogether inappropriate to introduce myself to this audience. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy t...o Paris, and I have enjoyed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »