Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has rested in millions of breasts and that has found a tabernacle and worshippers even in the desert - it seems that the triumphant Host of Lourdes and the Eucharistic Congresses of Chicago and Carthage remains as unknown, as secret as when it appeared for the first time in a room in Jerusalem. Light is in the world as in the days of St. John the Baptist, and the world does not know it

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

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures.

Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.