Whither should we aim if not towards God?

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

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.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.