One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

There are two words for everything.