Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

Long only for what you have.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

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

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.