To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.

A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

She was able to feel active creation going on around her in the rocks and hills, where the mystery of lust took place; and in herself, where all was yet only the night of senses and wild dreams, the work of passion going on.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite rare.