Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.
Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.
There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life.