Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like on the Cross, divided the minds as soon as it was announced... Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist

I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

Let us be wary of ready-made ideas about cowardice and courage: the same burden weighs infinitely more heavily on some shoulders than on others.

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

This 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.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

A man's passion for the mountain is, above all, his childhood which refuses to die.