Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.