I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.
Francois MauriacLet us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.
Francois MauriacIf you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.
Francois MauriacThis God who, as the psalmist said, built His tabernacles in the sun, now establishes Himself in the very core of the flesh and the blood.
Francois Mauriac