To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Sadness is a state of sin.

If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!