A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?