I love Paris in the summer, when it sizzles .

Cole Porter

Music : Petite Fleur-Sidney Bechet

I stayed three weeks in Paris,

fell in love with the city,

and decided that I was born

to live in Paris.

Ed Bradley

I guess I wanted to leave America for

awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an

expatriate, or just never come back, I

needed some breathing room. I'd

already been translating French poetry, I'd been to

Paris once before and liked it very much, and

so I just went .

Paul Auster

With an apple, I

will astonish

Paris .

Paul Cezanne

You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it

is that the past and present

intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to

burden.

Allen Ginsberg

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, for

Paris is a moveable

feast.

Ernest Hemingway

An artist has no

home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In Paris they simply stared when I

spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in

making those idiots understand

their language.

Mark Twain

Aug-09Photos : Catherine