The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.

We cannot cure the evils of politics with politics.

Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals.

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

Secrets. Need to disguise. The novel was born of this.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.