If you are terribly truthful, the ground will always move from under you, and you will have to shift with the constantly shifting truth.

We are cruel when someone refuses to play the role in which we have cast him. We judge a person only according to his relationship towards us.

I sleep with my feet on moss carpets, my branches in the cotton of the clouds.

I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman

Dreams are essential to life.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white spaciousness, I feel as if I were biting into a utopian fruit, something velvety and lustrous and rich and vivid.