When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.